Morning journal and courier., 1887-10-12
Scenes to Freeze Ones BIood-The Fire Ltcks up its Victims Before the Eyes of Helpless OnIOokers.

scenes to Freeze Ones BIo0d-The Fire Ltcks up its Victims Before the Eyes of Helpless OnIoOkers.
 CHICAGO, Oct. 11.-Several passengers 1 on the ill-fated train arrived in this city this 1 afternoon. One of them, gentleman from
 Taunton, Mass, who was on his way home, was sitting in the first car asleep with his head on his satehel 'sThs first knew, D
 said he, "I heard frightful crash and the
 car seemed shattered and the pieces were
 flying past me. The next I knew found
 myself buried in the ruins and they seemed
 to keep piling up. I tried to extricate my- self and found I was near 8 window. It was
 all dark and all around me were yells and
 groans and the blackness made it fearful. I
 did not seem to be hurt beyond being shaken
 up, so called for help out of the window.
 Some man, do not know who. helped me
 out and I then turned in and helped
 to get others out. A little while af
 ter got cut though the whole
 thing took fire and we were
 and let it burn with the horrible cries of those held inside in our ears. At one place there were two or three women apparently all together and we tried to get them out. They were shrieking all the time in 8 manner to freeze one's blood, for the fire was coming nearer to them. We worked as long as we could, but could not get them out and the ! fire came all around them and finally silenced their screams. To hear their desperate cries as the fire came nearer and nearer and finally reached them was simply appalling. The I wreck burned to the tracks, no facilities be- | ing at hand to extinguish the fire. A carload I of the injured was taken eastward from the I wreck this forenoon. They were maimed, ! bruised and burned, some quite badly"
 w. A. Duncan of Syracuse, N. Y., has ar rived from the scene of the accident He saw l the wreck. Eighteen or twenty is the number | at which he places those known to have been | killed. A number of these were burned be- | fore his eyes. A little Bohemian boy was | aemmed in but not reached by the fire and l saw his father, mother and two sisters slowly | ,oasting before his eyes. He was dying as l Mr. Duncan left. There was a doctor on the | rain, Mir. Duncan says, who lost his wife and | laughter in the burning wreck. He could do l absolutely nothing for them and saw them The train was not taken over the rack on which the wreck occurred, but witched around, the remains of the train ! 'eing still too hot to move. The night vas dark and the scene was dread ul. The rsar coaches of the pas coped so that they occupied less space ! han one. The live coals from the freight I Dgine ignited the debris under which the l wounded and dead were lying. Before sub tantial assistance could be rendered thirty
 eople had died. Some were mercifuIly kill d by the first shock, but many were slowly pasted to death. No one in the Pullman leeper was hurt. The conductor telegraphed Q his company here that all escaped before he fire reached the car and none were injur- ' in the collision. No means existed for ! hecking the fire and only after it had burn q itself out was it possible to do anything ( or those still alive imprisoned in the debris l { orty people were wounded or burned or oth. All were on the train when it left ( hicago, but no names were known up to S 80 o'clock. E